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9/23/2011 2:36PM

Will H-P Spin Off PC Unit? Plus, Next Apple Event

On today's Digits show: New H-P CEO Meg Whitman says the company will come to a decision on its PC business by the end of the year, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher joins to discuss her scoops of the week, including Whitman's appointment and what to expect from the next Apple event (iPhone 5?), and, is iHome's iW1 wireless speaker worth $299?

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Meg Whitman says expect a decision on the PC business of HP why you and will have that and ... use all the pasta ... all Atwal right and ... right now on Digits good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon call's will Stu Woo Johns's on the supple meantime show thank you Brian much for being so Needham's ... it's always a pleasure that is this is the one on the West Coast is enjoying the lovely what we have a New York today which actually isn't so lovely but it is ... typical OK let's go straight out to West Coast when bandwith and is standing by ... and Simon Sysco ... of the latest is that we're getting is that my women sang expect a decision on the PC business um ... that's up from the bowl think of the year and is coming up from a quickly does not ... it's coming up pretty quickly but also point out that ... she's not really saying anything that HP has been saying since August eighteen ... five as the the the first to admit ... it has not been treated very well ... since August eighteen ... um you know there is the message all along was when not going to sell this thing ... the stemware plan is worth thinking about spinning about now ... that said that I think that if you read the tea leaves here a little bit ... others in a language to suggest they are reconsidering that decision to spin it out or not ... um but so far at least publicly ... where is the isthe aren't really much difference what they have it so ... to bring you this ... though it's a chance that they could be beginning a backpack on this and perhaps reversing that decision and maybe not I'm not spending enough ... in a Yeh like I said this is just reading the tea leaves a little bit but ... you know what it means that Meg Whitman said yesterday at what used to inspect recall advantages formally named CEO was ... itno we backed the strategy reading this the right thing by ... as CEO of all obviously take some time repeaters myself ... so in a little things like that but you know it in this morning that the remaining Chairman in and Meg Whitman when on ... CNBC in a this reiterated what they've been saying that some athletes agree ... that there is there any questions about how long it'll take Meg Whitman to get up to speed on this for the business before this she ran off before stripper Governor trendy baby for that she ran ... IFT de aam are the questions about her from the familiarity with its hardware ... yet the that's a good question and remains the scene she's been on the board of directors since January so obviously ... she's been involved with each P but ... yet is a difference between being a director and is actually ready to come in the day-to-day basis ... and you're right I mean her background is time that the consumer side of things in the e-commerce side of things and HP is the world's largest maker of ... servers and PCs enough artwork but that is something that she has had experience ... to that used overseas to the small warming will get up to speed quickly ... the thing I thought was notable is that she says she sang she agrees with the strategy but the HP has had on the pop the cap but it's the execution that's the problem and that she needs unit she can do or all of this ... aam ... is the strategy truly the right strategy ... is not becoming ... his upcoming into down from anyone in the industry do you think ... well you know I remember back when he was on the board of directors approved the strategy in the same for detractors that voted out Lael App Attack are yesterday ... also has distracted so ... Yeh for them one month later to turn around and say you know what is the wrong strategy ... I didn't have a hard time with that ... of especially with the criticism of the sport has faced ... I you know um is it the right strategy ... day you know he should ... now ask around and I know the you know I mean certainly it's it's that unite getting out of the PC business and a bed weighted handle that decision has been something that customers have been ... worried about I've noticed deal for Autonomy that's the U K software company to pay more than ten billion dollars or ... I don't think anyone objects to find Autonomy but investors are upset about the amount of money that they're paying for it ... of ... email me that the strategy that Mayo said the company was to move into more prosperous parts of the tech industry ... I don't think anyone would object to that again I think the big problems execution Lauren Endeavor's all three times that he looked over a quarter ... I think that's the it's a big problem and we'll see if I can fix that amounts to to to to to see it that way to use to lower your time looking out the tech sector does that seem to be about right to enter the more pro business is bright and that some some reason said I'm ... the the the debt laden balance one of the biggest that's the biggest PC maker out there right now on so ... it remains the scene but ... um for some companies in the Netflix is doing a summer thing right now ... sell words of ... snow ... OK well I was on HP of oil a day in the shop ... thank you Brian much Lentuo than with a Wall Street don't check out the story online on the beest on come on a lot to ... read about all we in a delight to hate relationship with a new place but what we have a lot of changes yesterday amounts and at how some people up in arms ... 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AG because it is no doubt that our ... in the ... a piece of action ... we went to get it ... at what it is is not ready yet so ... it is an agreement to release the earliest of the stars seem to be filed up ... yet and radio people a letter to the air ... okay um thank you we up with that thank you Brian much Liz gangs with AllThingsDigital and San Francisco where ... the weather is better ... than its network for everyone to pay an essay on the was Fidel Speakeasy on YGE with with with how calm you will want to read this as it explains why some people are angry about some about changes and changes in general to flee with Facebook and its American bison and to ... bring full full ... reading what watch out Neflix Plop was set to announce a streaming video By and Dish we gotta Rex Crum with MarketWatch he isn't a walk west an event ... out and ... Simon Sysco racks at Tel tells what we need some o ... well there's a blockbuster to announce what they call us dream come true that other promoting it so far ... and basically this is the other friend on the ballot against Neflix with a seems to be a real big challenger to Netflix ... blockbuster of course bought by additionally this you're going for bankruptcy they have been some online ... in that instant of ... this training for some time but still they all of our model rebased we ... know paper one movie at the time ... this expected to be more along the Neflix line of him some kind of of the program or EPS of about a month in the net access to all the videos one ... mm over the sometimes ... this is interesting but my question is you know that the one thing I ... like about Netflix I can get my computer I think that my Apple TV to get on my my smartphone ... opposite Southern's is something that's been the available ... only to be a ... distant workout subway system ... that that is the sixty four thousand dollar question them up to go into that that meeting here and the ... nuts and bolts to be a tilt but really that's what the answers ... thing is ... don't you just fourteen million subscribers which is free ... but you know he has the gall them to sign up for the services of a neutral Neflix by about ten million and related to the popping of the feelings that they're gonna need to offer something to expand beyond Dish Network if they want the real rifle it's one thing to offer this Cintas dish Network subscribers but ... ill keep you that you're limiting your potential customer base by it by a ... huge amount but they're ... still yet to be inching to see what they have to do what they say when it comes to opening this up to the general public so system shutdown should not affect the part about this is is is is is yet another from NFX which has seen its stock by state collapse of the last few weeks there right now if it's only to be available on on the dish Network ... may not because the idea is again Netflix's on so many factors that on this but the incentive income and um my question Rex is a conservative talk about how much content that will be available for discovered the benefits of more than twenty thousand titles available and some preference and has more than ten thousand now I mean ... to read them and usability question to build it up is that the God of the Onek that something competitive advantage well the gate ... with a real ... real sample Consul every like it is that Netflix is twenty thousand delegates lagged a bit because you can read a hundred thousand DVD is but still there's twenty thousand titles you can stream it instantly ... so I've been to blockbuster anti Blockbuster's no stranger to deal with the movie rental business all know that that they're Lofts but ... dove in to see what they come out with their sparse at Watsons I'm very quickly racks on what was this last one one and had them looking SA savants Hyatt last time I won and I'm I'm down to the Baumohl and spinout is not looking back some type of incident side but ... I presume it would be is that going to be a problem with the friend thing all of its own board ... again that's loaded question of who want to get blockbuster because they have had ... no the bankruptcy may have ... been in the last lot of business because of Netflix ... so Weatherup that put more money into the local stores and try to use them up there ... that's the distant sea because you know this to be a lot of capital and expects to spend on that in addition to Apple for ... the game content for the online streaming catalog ... how can we live about thank you Brian much or supplies Durex prime with MarketWatch out before survive out in San Francisco ... well ... is Meg Whitman right for the job up and it isn't the way it made with one of the more pressure or is that the board of HPY lap that ... after the bright ... with back with more Digits I'm Simon Constable Stu Woo continues with main ... and now it's time for Swisher skills that that all things digital all this gives a band that ... but wanna talk about is Meg Whitman is she right for the job and who is on the Montbretia the board will make this up costs which are a self joins us now from AllThingsDigital in California ... thank you very much for joining the when the sun to I love the shades of what would be wearing my own ... but for the fact that it's raining cats and dogs here ... I'm actually there and I can say yes it with a little on the site that I would think that the next time to try to come up to your standards on this ... ALM so ... congratulations on this coupon nom ... on on Meg Whitman ... staying independent enough of state hands ... age paid ... a seven hundred thousand for the job to thank ... I was I think it gives him a chance to her horror she certainly would be uninsured people around the company in soccer that she's a very common and she was a very common and CEO of the nature of most of her tenure none of the band ... and dance meanwhile mirrors that are the most parts of the company into a powerhouse for the time it was ... instead she said it's you will see what the next few days is certainly a strong minded person is that you can eat it ... at least make business sense not so much in the Apple iPhone ... no picture to really jump back into the ... industry she left the day ... three years ago spent two years running for governor of California come across indicate that the that that will allow for coming back out of the spring ... there is the fact ... ay ay ay ... can you get it wrong place but inevitable forty a problem yet ... op ... when the Arctic ... I think our experts that were going to ... in the coming of ... what yet up up up but on the ... tech Wiz that has always on duty did it did carry on you cannot find bargains at the Shanghai yesterday it was a way that I need to get back to profit the QQQ or to any board at Ford field and had been not ... a planner Perkins which ... look out for ... it ... on the adventure for fishing penchant for Yelp or buildup of going on ... added to the question of how quickly if it did the company and that the big issue the that that that HP gigantic very complicated it it is gigantic and very complicated and that that sort of thing that can be to be problematic when when when the company gets ... they popped the question for you regarding the strategy we talked about how well the end of the Wintershall Amazon if you had a chance to ... chill out but that he was saying ... reading the tea leaves ... the question of whether the sell off the computer business all the PC business was ... was was perhaps being bought Kabel von AppSpot was gonna come down to ... the line to use the TUC the what's your Wieting of the tea leaves that ... I'd I think it's a very witty think they can agree that there are at ... yesterday we get ... we gotta get your interviewer character after her out and ... and that they ... are celebrating if I were to get it off or ... it ... could get away with the with very that within the company has ... been ... still some twenty twenty make of all this week it's a big change is the fault will change and CEO ... you know and and abroad ... so ... if it ever change your liking I think that that the Beheer and like I was thinking of posting it on the radar of Imam of the hands of the Polleit of that yet so and and what the stay would make political my question is on ... HP is much much bigger than the patients and that one wouldn't let the been selected in pretty bad said she didn't anticipate ... people moving from the ... auction model ... the fixed price model than Amazon really promoted and as result Amazon know I'll let ... them buy a lot so ... I'm wondering if if there are directors people animals were upset that ... Whitman's record of UK with infected more into account ... when considering a higher ... well I think that the market it felt that the company and all or nothing so I mean of the report they are indicating that affect the area that became a giant company under her leadership ... I know that that that that there are going on there for me to get our kids to get things done for several acquisitions ... it will go well ... she did not respond well to last year ... I'm a bit yet at the ... time to get it about Marchetti corporate CEO ... the question if they should freshen up began to you which is the beginning of the U K and the Furlong party like that then you're going to her tenure she did a very good job ... the British it cant that may ... crop up that Britney ... the bad bank and so ... that you should have that kind of action and that she bought it at the beginning of the kind of dry or should he or she not been enough to pick the direction ... of the very different company and you know when it acquired from ... Canada lot of different than an actor because each of you think that the ... the company the pair are confession panicking people managing ... the public right of the intervention of the issues that we have to know everyone to think ... about developing a bit more about managing ... people and looking into ... it and that that ... that that was pre much is this is a mean is it isn't that great big Sea island of Eventbrite the twelve percent of all trucks to haul the bullet that mean that the port seems that you know that they're becoming a random up to develop offered up ... if this doesn't walk out is that is a long before the cold War hop ... on or before ... I get back to rear kicked around for ... the current Iranian ... ally ... I leave there with the project is can I mean they're bored ... with it for now The much adding that the problem is the important for hire and fire here that the God ... of fire ... and had to make sure the threat that the trafficking is going to direct the Bielat promise to keep the ailing check ... and check on them and it poured it over very ... bright people ... the question is how would you call them should they haven't we had very if they happen and I have ... they really think that you would get behind the hurt and I gotta get out of the way it did not get a job the capital to intervene and Africa captain ... so is ... there a lot more pressure because ... she's coming and she typically capture predicting if she'd been with ... the bath to begin with ... the election on the fourth he picked up ... fighting with each other and to ... get in line behind the view of the pack ... well I'm onshore watching now so I'm so that ... I like the ... lavender plants until they do to ... so um turning out to the news on the appellant and the annual Apple iPad hopes of a fault that being that say all things that you broke that story when you know ... when ... but my computer yet read ... the ticket to report ... unit but added that the report and added it getting in that began in the Anido camp that ... I get back into Cupertino ... the flexibility there Elliott ... told the corporate entity ... I'm into the into good thing we have really high of five ... and ... the key they wanted to start the show ... ten ten took on to the nexus do we expect to see Indiana an appearance by Steve Jobs ... here I think that that that the last man and that of hell and back in and get the backing of the peak interfere in the final time deciding or email and any military ability he now and think of it is difficult to cure her value for the teeny little Theatre that ... I would like it was it like it but it depends on whether you want to take that away from to cope with ... the CEO ... they are refined of the Fiat ... has really taken to the chairman ... added that the lottery to pay what you want to share ... but both he added I think it how would you want to do ... that with their strategy of ... this was itching to get in the ... Delta's winning ... this Apple sitting in ONEF when Sanderson expectations as to how much this Tasho meant some couples after falling in the Steve Jobs's footsteps ... I know I mean you can't recommend opening typically get out ... I'll finally I ... anybody can pass it on what I think he'd be a much wanted baby can and will be under with everything and really it that much of what happened in Tibet with the job but ... not really that I think ... that the tiny one is that it or not there ... then Phil Schiller is a marketing and head of Apple ... Filipino is heading for one thing that it can be hard ... to compare it to be sure to be compared to the jump to carry ... it out ... to the plate ... looking at it like Michael Jordan to see what you have ... to rethink the Yelp ... he can they when he got the wunderkind PLO one of the iconic Silicon Valley and nobody like him ... nobody careful that you think of ... it ... a lot of things to ... try out the entire video that harmonies itching to buy one they can buy my phone five when one is the market we need to not entity ... them in and ... I think every week after that what that we've been reporting that ... covered but it is the middle the month ... and the AG IPO is quite different I don't I'm you know I've Jon Kamp the art that that the tremendous job of breaking the group about ... Apple ... and that he was that he would like it but ... with a bright light after the ... report ... are within a week or so ... on it but it should begin now with Apple they were in the never now they might have to back a bit like to know them ... like the prices they like ... the no forty ninety or whatever ... the one thing ... in August ... well Tom done nothing so from now live from the path they will come down thank you Brian much until was above that ... Kara Swisher ... Obel things going on in San Francisco ... well why the hands of May the ninth for the state that tough love that ... after this bright ... with back with more Digits I'm Simon Constable Stu Woo continues with main ... now why the ... bands made the night for the speed of the party backdrop dollar soaring ... again write ... what bubble bath ... this windy and maybe now it means that the top ... twenty banks Johns's now on the set explain what's going on mission has something which the tunnel looks like a spigot though but it is news because it has no place ... ABBA and ducted tells about it ... I the eye of the one and buy Einhorn to the company that makes lot of ... time I private and ... public sector is that of putting a lot of speaker docks like a traditionally played in your favorite posts and done that yet we stick your ... 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TV at home and I ... and and it's ... the same thing I connected with my ... with that with my FMTVs until they have given this ... view looking for people who were just looking for something more portable ... this is the place to be an upgrade of credit that we have caught the can of ubiquitous I'd ... I pod I phone speaker dot com is comparable with the five time there was a little so disliking lifted up with that ... um they also said finance on the charging docks so this was about or in advance that you can read the charging dock ... with the Phillies lead ... and they get busy so that moving around the house is nothing is done on the stock goes to ... the place that sophisticated sound system ... and it's the free night as the kid that going to knock yesterday in terms of ... the sound ... how or ... or or ... 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I had a very good experience it will depend on a lot of authentic keep having that having interference while as I think ... at this um I quit running it again but this being in the but not really ... there's a lot of different ... items in the kitchen sink ... that was his union is indeed if it's in the White pieces ... on the ... I think we know why I speaker system is is probably going to ... get that weren't sophisticated because ... of this ... this cannot compression happening although this does ... um ... thing is that of Icelanders a less than a Bluetooth ... speaker does Harvard arson mean Bluetooth ... wireless because they're coming out I haven't tested the that that supposedly of us to show ... how much is this summer says giveback Odyssey started ninety nine dollars of debt so ... copper will say like a ... Bose sound top ... of the latest information ... if not it if not I went to ... the decision would ... say wad of money and bought it ... one of ... the cheapest of ... AirPlay enabled wireless move is the can down the past year ... some other items because the victim as much for the ninety five and ... so ... it's ... it's it's a lower price when the standardized lot of money and ... yes I ... know ... I think that to replace Terry I putt speaker dot is with that stated that it's a bit of places to give up that is what that thank you for much twenty banks would you buy it wants to do ... oddly though I think of them were audio file then that is for sale in order to provide a thank you Brian much bigger new ... vehicle designs I'm Simon Constable that's it That's digits for now you'll come by sea Evan you want that to mean Street Why Hill would not be footing the ... see light up